Family members and friends hail Supreme Court order granting bail to Rights activist Friends, family members and Union Ministers on Friday hailed the Supreme Court order granting bail to Rights activist Binayak Sen, with his lawyer Ram Jethmalani saying the verdict was an endorsement of the right to freedom of speech as “a principle of democracy.” Union Minister Salman Khurshid expressed happiness over the court decision to release Dr. Sen, who was...

He may be a sympathiser. That doesn't make him guilty of sedition: Judge The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to Dr. Binayak Sen, observing that no case of sedition was made out against the Rights activist, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial court in Chhattisgarh. A Bench of Justices H.S. Bedi and C.K. Prasad, after hearing senior counsel Ram Jethmalani for the petitioner and senior...

Union Law and Justice Minister M. Veerappa Moily said on Friday that an overarching law premised on the “right to justice” could soon be a reality. He said the first draft of the Bill was ready though it was still to be circulated for feedback. Mr. Moily's promise of a new law on justice came at a seminar, “Towards knowledge, development and peace,” organised by the Institute of Objective Studies (IOS)...

After the Supreme Court ordered the release of human Rights activist Binayak Sen on bail, Sen's counsel and senior advocate Ram Jethmalani said the trial court was guided by the colonial concept of sedition and its judgment violated at least two Supreme Court judgments enunciating what constituted sedition. The bench picked up from where Jethmalani left. When Chhattisgarh's counsel and senior advocate U U Lalit attempted to justify the sedition charge...

“Quartz grinding is one of the deadliest occupations” “Slowly, but surely, every one of us who has been to the factories in Gujarat will die, and there is nothing we can do to change that,” Buddha (45) of Undli village says bitterly. Buddha lost his 18-year-old-son Mohan to acute silicosis a year ago. His 16-year-old daughter Ghamma is still suffering from the disease. Silicosis, the deadly scourge unleashed upon migrant labourers of...